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Project title: ATLAS
Project summary:
ATLAS is a performative lecture exploring Black masculinity as a form of labour through a continuous act of carrying, negotiating and rebuilding identity across personal, cultural and systemic pressures. Using the metaphors of Atlas and Sisyphus, the work positions the Black male body as both a carrier and a site of pressure, moving between lecture, embodiment, direct address and symbolic action.
A table functions as the work’s central object: partner, structure, burden, inheritance and cultural site. Across the performance, the table is lifted, dragged, reoriented and reimagined, allowing physical labour to become dramaturgy. The piece moves from pressure and surveillance toward Afrofuturist reimagining, asking not only how inherited weight is carried, but how it can be transformed.
Themes: Black masculinity, labour, inheritance, surveillance, family, community, transformation, Afrofuturism Performance language: Performative lecture, physical theatre, direct address, symbolic object work, endurance, psychophysical performance Methodology: The work draws on psychophysical training, laboratory theatre approaches, Laban-informed movement principles and an emerging training system called the Motor Cycle Praxis, where balance reflects emotional state, weight reflects responsibility and direction reveals intention. Development status: Developed performance / research-driven solo work Future life of the project: ATLAS has the potential to develop into a tourable solo work with workshop and discussion formats attached, making it suitable for theatre, festival, educational and community contexts.
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Rubber Crown
Project title: THE RUBBER CROWN
Project summary:
THE RUBBER CROWN is a research and development project toward a solo performance exploring the legacy of King Leopold II and the colonial violence of the Congo Free State. The project investigates how histories of mass violence are remembered, erased or sanitised, and how performance can confront difficult historical narratives through text, movement and minimal staging.
A new direction: This project marks the next stage of my artistic development: a move from introspective solo storytelling to research-led, politically engaged performance that addresses history, power, memory, and responsibility. Development needs: Research, writing, creative experimentation, collaboration with a director and dramaturg, rehearsal, work-in-progress sharing, and future touring development. Future audience positioning: This work is aimed at audiences interested in politically engaged theatre, historical reckoning, postcolonial performance, solo storytelling and formally stripped-back work that uses the body and text to confront systems of power. Audiences who like the work of: Khalid Abdalla, Inua Ellams, debbie tucker green, and artists creating urgent, text-led and physically charged solo performance.
EPHEMERAL
Project title: EPHEMERAL
Project summary:
EPHEMERAL is a solo performance project inspired by Shakespearean structure and cinematic storytelling, composed of 13 monologues performed by one actor. The work explores fractured identity and transformation through minimal staging, symbolic language and emotionally charged performance.
EPHEMERAL has been a key step in the development of my solo practice. It strengthened my ability to sustain narrative, embody multiple characters, and hold an audience through stripped-back but physically and emotionally expressive performance. Performance language: Solo performance, monologue sequence, symbolic staging, heightened text, embodied storytelling Themes: Transformation, fractured identity, multiplicity, voice, presence, self-authorship Future life of the project: EPHEMERAL remains an important reference point in my artistic development and can function as a foundation for future solo work, touring ideas and portfolio framing.